After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up.
"In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss," Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said it was surprising to see the "level of attachment" people had to 4o. "It's not just change that is difficult for folks, it's also the fact that people can have such a strong feeling about the personality of a model."
Turley said that OpenAI was working to bring the "warmth" of 4o to GPT-5. In a Tuesday evening post on X, CEO Sam Altman said the …
